Over the last few days, a series of new posters for Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR have been unveiled, each featuring a different image and tagline for the film which, collectively, mimic the trailer we have all seen. But, do these posters amount to spoilers rather than mysterious imagery as we have become accustomed to from a Nolan project?
Take the four posters in order (excluding the teaser one sheet). You have an image of Matthew McConaughey standing on an icy, alien planet. Then, we have a poster showing a spacecraft nearing some sort of anomaly. That is followed by McConaughey on the desolate, barren farm we see in the trailer. The final poster is McConaughey and his crew standing in an ocean of water. And here are the taglines from each.
The end of Earth will not be the end of us.
Go further.
Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.
Mankind's next step will be our greatest.
Now, they are still somewhat cryptic lines, but there also seems to be a thread taking these in plot order. We can assume the posters mimic the trailer, following Matthew McConaughey's character from his wasteland home on Earth to taking flight in an interstellar mission to another habitable planet that features an icy exterior. We have seen in the trailer both the ice planet and the water planet and I always assumed they were the same place. But, what if they aren't?
McConaughey's character promises his daughter he will return but it seems the journey to the new planet is a one way trip. Does McConaughey return to find his now grown daughter and son, I assume played by Jessica Chastain and Casey Affleck in a habitable place or does the journey back bring him to a desolate world now covered in an ice age? Granted, this is all theory and I may be smoking too much, but having read Jonathan Nolan's original screenplay before it was revised for this project, I cannot help but thin there is a huge twist coming.
In either case, we don't have much longer to wait as INTERSTELLAR opens on November 7th.
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